78
it do be like that (lemy.lol)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

all 12 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the second version of this meme I've seen

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
    • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    It’s more, “They Live” but rich pedophiles instead of aliens. I’m just worried we won’t break their hold in time.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    POV: you watch hollywood films

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 1 point 1 week ago (6 children)

    Replace the matrix with H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”. We are Morlocks, the Billionaires are the Eloi, and brother, we are getting hungry

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    That's a bad analogy, and if anything you have the two mixed up.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    How so? The Eloi live in the light, carefree, contributing nothing while the morlocks toil in the darkeness, maintain the machinery that allows the Eloi to maintain their lifestyle. The price being everyonce in a while the morlocks crawl out of the underground and eat one of the Eloi.

    Hell, St. Luigi might as well be the patron saint of morlocks.

    One might want to actually read the book. It’s literally the father of dystopian fiction

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I've read the book numerous times, also seen both movies. Who is in control?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Neither. The entire point is civilization has evolved (or digressed) to the point where one group does the work and maintains the machinery in exchange for food, while the other reaps the disproportionate benefits while supplying one resource the other depends on for survival.

    For a more modern interpretation I guess we could say the morlocks have control they just don’t realize it. Something something seize the means of production?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Control was the wrong word. Who is in power through domination? This is the weakness of analogies, I got the basic jest of your initial comparison, it just had too many other things wrong with it to make it work well.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent